{"id":279767,"date":"2016-12-26T14:06:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-26T14:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=279767"},"modified":"2016-12-26T14:06:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-26T14:06:21","slug":"gas-station-at-centre-of-labadi-explosion-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=279767","title":{"rendered":"Gas station at centre of Labadi explosion closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ghana National Fire Service have shut down the Louis gas station at Labadi which was the scene of a gas explosion.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion which occurred\u00a0last Thursday has left 10 persons dead so far.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;2XVhy2Kgsj9AkAsTeDepv55GUaGOgons&#8221;]The Deputy Public Relations Officer for the Ghana National Fire Service, Prince Billy Anaglatey, indicated that investigations were still ongoing though he noted that an assessment\u00a0would be needed to settle on the definite cause of the fire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe investigation does not really settle on the cause of the fire but the other facilities that the regulators or the agencies that are responsible are examining to determine what might have happened prior to the fire.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor us to determine all this, the fuel station must be closed down to enable the regulators\u00a0to have an adequate assessment of what exactly happened here,\u201d Mr. Anaglate explained to <strong>Citi News<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Mr. Anaglate said the Fire Service&#8217;s &#8220;preliminary investigations pointed to the fact that there was a leakage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/22\/fire-alert-gas-station-at-labadi-explodes-photos\/\">Labadi gas explosion<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0has\u00a0rekindled the debate around the location of fuel stations in residential areas, but the Fire Service has said\u00a0enforcing safety measures will reduce the fire incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Anaglate\u00a0insisted that\u00a0\u201cit is not\u00a0about the siting of the filling stations; it is about the lack of maintenance of safety measures put in place. If you are able to ensure that safety measures are put in place and are maintained, you have reduced the hazard associated to the barest minimum. So it is not about the siting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ghana National Fire Service have shut down the Louis gas station at Labadi which was the scene of a gas explosion. The explosion which occurred\u00a0last Thursday has left 10 persons dead so far. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;2XVhy2Kgsj9AkAsTeDepv55GUaGOgons&#8221;]The Deputy Public Relations Officer for the Ghana National Fire Service, Prince Billy Anaglatey, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":279757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11],"tags":[3,14458],"class_list":["post-279767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-labadi-gas-explosion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=279767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=279767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=279767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=279767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}